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Letter from Biden’s Washington

The Trump Presidency Is Still an Active Crime Scene

It’s hard to consign the Trump years to the history books when we remain in the middle of the crisis that it sparked.

American Chronicles

Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes

The undercover operations seem like entrapment, but their targets can receive long sentences.

Q. & A.

The Republicans Running to Support Trump

Don Bolduc is one of many political aspirants who believe that the 2020 election was stolen.

Books

A Recipe for Being Yourself in the Kitchen

Laurie Colwin’s style of food writing taught home cooks to trust the strength of their convictions.

“Squid Game” and the Spirit of the New Korean Cinema

William Shatner Reacts to a Real Space Trip as Only He Can

A Philosopher’s Defense of Anger

The Mysterious Case of the COVID -19 Lab-Leak Theory

Mike Rose Changed How We Teach Writing

Puzzles & Games

Name Drop

A quiz that tests your knowledge of notable people, published every weekday.

Crossword

A thrice-weekly puzzle that ranges from lightly to considerably challenging.

Cryptic Crossword

A weekly puzzle for lovers of wily wordplay.

Caption Contest

We provide a cartoon, you provide a caption.

Spotlight

Photo Booth

Unearthing the Work of a California Photographer

The colors in many of Kali’s images seem to shimmer, as if pulsing with their own internal heartbeat.

The New Yorker Documentary

The Romance of American Activism

“Radical Love” follows a couple who worked on behalf of the Weather Underground and others.

Profiles

Paul McCartney Doesn’t Want to Stop the Show

Half a century after the Beatles broke up, he’s still correcting the record—and making new ones.

Dept. of Amateurism

The Opera Swimmers of Brooklyn

For “Sun & Sea,”  let Brooklynites in bathing suits frolic on sand and chat with the singers.

The Sporting Scene

The Great Bridge Boycott

At a recent tournament, thirty teams refused to compete when faced with the prospect of playing against an Italian player who has been accused of cheating.

Culture Desk

A Bad Case of Scribble Brain

Thoughts on a lifetime of failing to be “normal.”

A Reporter at Large

The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids

A Christian organization claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

Page-Turner

The Short Story in the “Bad Art Friend” Saga

A feature has prompted discourse about artistic appropriation. Is the art in question any good?

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Contributors

Richard Brody
The Front Row

“No Time to Die” Leaves Daniel Craig’s James Bond Legacy Unfulfilled

Sheldon Pearce
Listening Booth

The Very Online Music of Magdalena Bay

Bill McKibben
Daily Comment

When Will We Have the Last Oil Spill?

Merve Emre
The New Yorker Interview

Diane Williams Will Never Be Dutiful

Dhruv Khullar
Comment

Another Winter of COVID

Louis Menand
A Critic at Large

It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”

Margaret Talbot
Daily Comment

The Increasingly Wild World of School-Board Meetings

Cal Newport
Office Space

The Return-to-Office Quandary

Daily Cartoon

This week’s cartoons »
Cookie Monster and a friend are walking down the street.
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In Focus

The Coronavirus Crisis

Coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the science of vaccines to the culture of quarantine.

Racial Injustice and Policing

Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the long history of racism in America.

Dept. of Returns

Stories of life after the vaccine.

The Future of Democracy

An exploration of democracy in America.

From This Week’s Issue

All issues »

David Remnick on Paul McCartney’s winding road , Rachel Aviv on a Christian school’s harsh discipline , Anthony Lane on James Bond , and more.

Table of Contents »
October 18, 2021
Abstract person walking treelined path towards city street

“Walk in the Park,” by Christoph Niemann.

Humor

Daily Shouts

Remembrances of Being at the Mall

You stood in a glass elevator next to a man with a fat mustache and a turquoise knapsack who looked at you angrily.

Daily Shouts

“Sleep When the Baby Sleeps!” and Other Parenting Advice

Cry when the baby cries; laugh when the baby laughs; trash the room when the baby trashes the room.

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Just Claim He Won

He said that campaigning would be “a waste of time, quite frankly, because I have already won that election.”

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

A Breakthrough in Understanding Darwin’s Theory

One step forward, one step back.

Daily Shouts

Go Bags of the Stars

What Kanye West, Melania Trump, and others grab when the going gets tough.

Shouts & Murmurs

Eight First Impressions of a Time Traveller

I’m from the future. You better change your ways, or get ready for water wars and moisture suits.

Fiction & Poetry

Fiction

“Not Here You Don’t”

“Cary thought that his old man had had a pretty great American life.”

Poems

“Standing in the Atlantic”

“We were after death and before.”

This Week in Fiction

Thomas McGuane on the American West

The author discusses his story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Poems

“Crescendo”

“Three o’clock, about two hours of light left, / glorious on the ornamental pear.”

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